When police pull the trigger in South Carolina, investigators fail to answer key questions about what happened, fail to document the backgrounds of the officers and demonstrate a clear pattern of double standards that favor police.

More than 300 women have been shot, stabbed, strangled, beaten, bludgeoned or burned to death by men in South Carolina over the past decade, dying at a rate of one every 12 days while the state does little to stem the carnage from domestic abuse.

On Oct. 26, S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley announced that the state Department of Revenue's computer network had been hacked, exposing the financial information and Social Security number of the state's taxpayers. Our continuing special coverage documents the extent of the cyber attack and tells you how to get help.

Everything costs more, but we’re not making more money. The middle class is said to be suffering its worst decade in modern history. For the next month, the presidential candidates will contend that they hold the middle class’ best interests at heart. The Post and Courier is detailing the struggles many of us face, and offering you solutions for finding a job, getting out of debt, paying the bills, clothing the family and putting food on the dinner table.

Now that the Supreme Court has agreed to hear the Baby Veronica case, the matter is much larger than whether this 3-year-old Cherokee girl will be returned to her adoptive parents on James Island. Legal observers see this is a watershed case for the Indian Child Welfare Act, which gives Native American parents preference in adoption cases to preserve Indian culture.

University officials have been unable to explain where millions of federal and state dollars that flowed to the James E. Clyburn University Transportation Center at South Carolina State University have gone.